Frontaccounting Theme Development

Frontaccounting Theme Development is much easier for you, if you know the facts of theme development. Here I will give you simple tutorial to develop your own custom theme for your frontaccouting. Lets start with Default theme and files. The default theme consist of Following files list :

• images Directory
• index.php
• default.css
• renderer.php

This is the basic files you have to know while developing new the for Frontaccounting. Also, if you want to know the template for Header and footer. goto the path

Path/to/root/includes/page/

Here you will get the header.inc and footer.inc, Which will help you to render the header and footer part of the template. And one more thing, For login and Logout page. You need to check the “access” folder on the top of the root of frontaccounting.

Lets come to the customization. All your styles must be written on the default.css file,. Which will be hooked automatically, when your theme is selected.   Next will be the “rednderer.php ” , Just open the filde on text editor, Here i will make you to understand the codes and functions for your understanding . You can customize it with your taste than.

class renderer
	{
		function get_icon($category)
		{
			global  $path_to_root, $show_menu_category_icons;

			if ($show_menu_category_icons)
				$img = $category == '' ? 'right.gif' : $category.'.png';
			else	
				$img = 'right.gif';
			return "<img src='$path_to_root/themes/". user_theme()."/images/$img' style='vertical-align:middle;' border='0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;";
		}

Here the above class starts with a function called ” get_icon” . This function will get the icons for your theme, you can also write your codes to include your custom images into it.

function wa_header()
		{
			page(_($help_context = "Main Menu"), false, true);
		}

This function will be the header of the Dashboard page and your main screen. and includes the header.inc here.

function wa_footer()
		{
			end_page(false, true);
		}

Obviously, this functions hand;es the footer part of your theme. There after you have Three main functions which are

• menu_header
• menu_footer
• display_applications

Let’s talk briefly on the article. Stay read more about Frontaccounting theme development.